Recent stories:
• Economic problems in southern Vermont - lack of jobs, etc.
• Opposition to Justice Center in Bellows Falls.
• Opposition to gas plant in Vernon.
• Opposition to wind power plant.
Gee, can there be a connection here?
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
For some people traveling along Route 142 just a few miles south of downtown, the Cersosimo Lumber Company provides interesting scenery - look at those huge piles of logs! - strange noises, and a reminder that even in our modern plastic world, forests still play a big part in our local, rural economy. On June 23, the Windham Regional Woodlands Association sponsored the employee-led guided tour of the company's headquarters, where about 50 attendees got an up-close view of a...
BRATTLEBORO-A diverse body of artwork by Guyanese-American artist Carl E. Hazlewood is currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). "Infinite Passage" includes 50 of Hazlewood's mixed-media paintings, drawings, and installations, in which the artist explores themes such as the passage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic and the landscapes and seascapes in Guyana. Hazlewood will discuss the exhibition in an online conversation hosted by BMAC on Tuesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. He will be joined...
In 2017, I fell in love for the first time - with a group of Iraqi and American youth. I was working with the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP), a program run by World Learning in Brattleboro and funded by the U.S. State Department. It offered a month-long experience to 29 Iraqi and 10 American students and three staff the chance to live and learn for a month together in the United States. I served as a teacher, travel...
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